v. To make peculiar; to set apart or assign as an exclusive possession.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To make peculiar; to set apart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To make peculiar; set apart: appropriate. … Also spelled peculiarise.
Word Usage
"There is no doubt that the primary purpose of Circumcision was to peculiarize the Jews by an indelible visible sign; and it was as necessary that Jewish infants should be known to be Jews as Jewish men."